Glen Lanham was introduced as Duke wrestling head coach on April 16, 2012. He is the 12th head coach in Duke wrestling history.

In just his second season, Lanham landed a Duke wrestler on the podium at NCAA Championships for the third time in the program’s history. Conner Hartmann, in his second consecutive appearance at NCAAs, turned in a pair of upsets en route to becoming Duke’s second All-American wrestler with a fifth-place showing at 197 points.

In addition, for the first time in program history, Duke had two wrestlers - Immanuel Kerr-Brown joined Hartmann – who advanced to the second day of wrestling at the NCAA Championships. Kerr-Brown’s improvement under Lanham’s watch shined through in 2014-15. The Rome, Ga., native posted a career-high 26 wins, five shy of his previous two seasons combined, and took third at ACC Championships.

As a team, Duke had its highest finish at NCAA Championships in program history with a 29th-place showing. Overall, Duke finished the year 6-15 after wrestling its toughest schedule in school history.

The Duke wrestling program took strong strides in Lanham’s first season at the helm. The Blue Devils finished the year 9-10-0 and 1-4 in the ACC. The nine wins were the most since the 2008-09 campaign as Duke sent two wrestlers – Brandon Gambucci and Hartmann – to the NCAA Championships. It marked the first time since 2009 as well that multiple Blue Devils competed in the NCAA postseason event.

On the mat, Gambucci earned All-ACC honors at 133 pounds to earn an automatic berth in the NCAA Championships. Hartmann finished third at 197 pounds, despite missing the previous month to an injury, and garnered an at-large invitation to the postseason.

Overall, Duke placed four wrestlers among the top four in the ACC Championship and had seven different wrestlers place in the various tournaments over the course of the year.

Duke was equally as successful in the classroom under the watchful eye of Lanham. The Blue Devils landed six wrestlers on the All-ACC Academic Team, while Gambucci and Hartmann earned NWCA All-Academic recognition and the Duke team ranked fifth overall with a team GPA of 3.15.

The Blue Devils also were active in the community, helping handicapped kids learn baseball, visiting local hospitals, and cooking breakfast at the Durham Urban Ministries.

Prior to taking over the head coaching position, Lanham served as an assistant coach with the Blue Devils for two seasons. Lanham helped mentor Diego Bencomo and Tanner Hough to NCAA Championship berths in 2011 and 2012, respectively. Under Lanham’s tutelage in the wrestling room, Bencomo earned 2011 All-ACC recognition after taking runner-up honors at the ACC Championships at 184 pounds. The Phoenix, Ariz., native went on to register a pair of wins in the NCAA Tournament, becoming just the second wrestler in Duke history to make it to the quarterfinal round.

With the help of Lanham in 2012, Hough became the second Duke true freshman to earn a bid to the NCAA Championships after taking fourth at the ACC Championships at 141 pounds. Hough finished his rookie campaign with a 23-13 overall record.

Lanham joined the Duke coaching staff as an assistant in June of 2010 after stints as an assistant coach at Oklahoma State, North Carolina and Purdue. Prior to arriving in Durham, he spent three seasons at Purdue where he spearheaded the Boilermakers’ recruiting efforts.

At Purdue, Lanham had an immediate impact on the program, helping several Boilermakers to breakout seasons. He mentored a selection of student-athletes to the NCAA Championships during his three seasons and under his watch Luke Manuel earned three bids to the NCAA postseason and climbed to as high as fifth nationally at 174 pounds.

The Boilermakers’ two recruiting classes under Lanham garnered a wealth of national honors, including the nation’s No. 12 class from InterMat.com in 2008. It marked the second straight top-20 national recruiting class for the Boilermakers as they reeled in three of the nation’s top-100 recruits, including a pair of 2009 USA Wrestling Junior national champions.

Prior to his three years at Purdue, the former Oklahoma State competitor coached at the University of North Carolina for four years. With the Tar Heels, Lanham also worked closely with the middle to upper weight classes and headed their recruiting efforts.

In his time in Chapel Hill, Lanham tutored four ACC Champions and nine NCAA Championships qualifiers. He also went to great lengths to improve the Tar Heels’ program, bringing in an InterMat Wrestling Top-25 recruiting class in 2006-07.

Lanham worked as a high school teacher and wrestling coach in Oklahoma from 1991-2003. He was at Midwest City High School for seven years, where he mentored several state champions and sent them on to prestigious college programs. While at Midwest City, he also volunteered his time at Oklahoma University, coaching several All-Americans.

Lanham served as a graduate assistant at Oklahoma State University from 1988-1991, helping the Cowboys to a pair of NCAA Championships. As a college competitor, he garnered All-American honors at both OSU and the University of Tennessee, where he earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in human service with an emphasis in juvenile counseling in August of 1988. He competed internationally as a member of the Sunkist Kids team and was freestyle wrestling All-American.